Blood Bible: An American History

In her most ambitious work yet, NAACP Image Award–nominated author DaMaris B. Hill considers Black identity and the inescapable weight of American history.

America's monuments and anthems are pervasive hornets swarming about my ears . . .

When DaMaris B. Hill thinks of home, she thinks of America, its monuments, its anthems, and the weight of its history. Just as her ancestry is bound up with the trans-Atlantic slave trade, so is her personal identity inextricably tied to these United States....